Showing Help with Help Buttons
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You can use the Help button, of type Vcl.Buttons.TBitBtn and with the Kind = bkHelp
kind, to show the help topic without writing any code.
In the Form Designer, select your form. On the Tool Palette, select Additional. Select TBitBtn. Place the TBitBtn type button on your form. The Object Inspector shows the properties of this button as in the following figure:
In the right column of the Kind property, select bkHelp
. The button Caption shows Help.
Build and Run your application. Clicking this Help button in your application opens the help topic identified by the specified context ID number or by the specified keyword.
You can specify the help topic properties for a help button directly using the button properties: HelpType (htContext
or htKeyword
) and HelpContext or HelpKeyword. However, usually you specify help topic properties in properties of the parent form. To delegate the specification of the help topic properties to the form, set HelpType = htContext
and HelpContext = 0
(notice that these are the default values of these properties.)
You specify the help file name in the HelpFile property of the parent form or of the global Application object.